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I am an associate professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and director of the Curriculum & Instruction doctoral program. I serve as an associate editor at Applied Psycholinguistics, and an editor at Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. I was a bilingual teacher in Detroit, MI and have worked in district, state, and nonprofit settings. I work with bilingual learners from multilingual homes in K-8 settings, thinking about language use and development, cross-linguistic relations, instructional interventions, and teacher practice. I've published a bunch of articles and book chapters, and have developed language and reading curricula. I always work in close collaboration with teachers to facilitate the translation of research to practice.

The American Spectator runs an interesting rumination on this rather contentious question. Among the more contentious selections described by Mark Tooley, the column's author: "...if the Nativity story happened in today's Arizona, 'Sheriff Arpaio would seek to arrest Joseph and Mary, throw them into Tent City, where Mary would have had her baby with little medical attention.' In this scenario, Jesus would be an anchor baby. And Joseph may have a dream directing him back into Mexico, though the 'trek across the Arizona desert is as treacherous and dangerous as the trek from Bethlehem to Egypt.'"